The Rarity of Tanzanite

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In 1967, blue-violet crystals of the mineral species, zoisite, were discovered south of Mount Kilimanjaro in northeast Tanzania. The host rocks of the discovery, which are orders of magnitude older than Africa’s highest mountain, form…

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